Guyal Bayles Quotes & Sayings

I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help? — C.S. Lewis

Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who is taking the time to tell you a story that has great meaning to them. They're taking the time to do this because your life could use some help, but they don't want to come over and just give advice. They want to give it to you in a form that becomes inseparable from your whole self. That's what stories do. Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you."

~Alice Walker, in an interview about her work in Common Boundary, 1990 — Alice Walker

True storytellers write not because they can but because they have to. There is something they want to say about the world that can only be said in a story. — John Freeman

But if there was no Barcelona why would you get out of bed in the morning? — Ray Hudson

Now, young Skywalker, your training is complete. Tonight - you become a Jedi. - Drew Evans — Emma Chase

I can't wait to get home and wash all those socks. — Julianne Moore

My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up cheerleading for highly dubious opinions on historical, scientific, and metaphysical matters, simply on the bases of emotional preference and the inertia of tradition. They demand conformity to these beliefs, and if you cannot swim with the current, then, well partner, maybe you'd be happier in another pool, another lake in fact, the one ablaze with burning sulfur. — Robert M. Price

From what I've understood, it's an entirely different world, and it's a tough world to get your foot in the door, but I've always wanted to be a voice of a Disney character. — Sean Maher

Its emptiness is more than the lack of living, breathing beings. It is the unread pages of the many books that reside on the shelves throughout the room I should hot have thought one could tell when books have gone unread, but after the company of Birchwood's well-loved library it is as if I can hear these books whispering, their pages grasping and reaching for an audience. — Michelle Zink

I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop. — James Vincent McMorrow

I'm a big fan of the rocket picture." "That's an airplane," she corrected. "Oh, so what's the slug thing underneath it?" "That's a mountain with eyes." I raised an eyebrow in question. "I was six," she said, explaining everything. — Steve McHugh

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. — Louis Pasteur

I don't drink as much as I use to could. — Anna Nicole Smith